Can you or do you wash your clothes? Can you cook meals for yourself when your parents are not at home?   1.

Today, many young people can’t look after themselves when they leave home.   2. I don’t want to be a person like that. I want to be more independent(独立的).

When I was only seven years old, I was in the kitchen with my mother enjoying cooking. I always helped her.   3. She was really interested in teaching me how to cook. But when my mother got married (结婚), she didn’t know how to cook. My grandmother never allowed her to stay in the kitchen when she was cooking. My mother did not start cooking until she was 25 years old.   4. She had to take cooking lessons. So she decided to teach us how to cook because she didn’t want us to have the same experience.

 5. I always wash my own clothes, and sometimes I wash my parents and my brother’s clothes, too. When my parents are not at home, I can cook meals for my brother and me.

A. At the beginning, it was difficult for her.

B. I did nothing at home, because my mother could help me.

C. My mother likes doing chores.

D. And now I can do many chores myself.

E. Do you often help do some chores at home?

F. I learned cooking from my mother.

G. They even can’t wash a pair of socks.

词语释义(共5小题，每小题l分，满分5分)

选择与句中划线部分意义最接近的解释，并将其字母代号填入答题卷相应空格内。

1.Yang Shanzhou becomes well-known in China for planting so many trees for people.

A．great             B．famous           C．friendly           D．warm

2.Try again, maybe you will come up with a better idea.

A．turn up           B．put up            C．get up            D．think up

3.It's a chicken-and-egg question. I can't answer you now.

A．easy             B．clear             C．difficult           D．funny

4.Come and join us. We are short of hands.

A．We need help.                         B．We hurt our hands.

C．Our hands are short.                     D．We can do it by ourselves,

5. My clothes are not fashionable.

A．lost              B．new              C．out of style        D．worn out

根据句意及首字母或汉语提示完成单词。
【小题1】Last week she borrowed my book and didn’t r__________ it.
【小题2】It’s i___________ to finish the project in such short time.
【小题3】I’m seeing Sue this afternoon.Do you want me to bring a m___________?
【小题4】My parents are not at home, so I have to look after m_____________.
【小题5】Don’t c____________ others’ homework. It’s a bad habit.
【小题6】He doesn’t like playing football. His brother doesn’t like it e___________.
【小题7】In the future, there will be more robots _____________ (到处).
【小题8】It’s my mother’s birthday tomorrow.I will buy some ___________(花) for her.
【小题9】The children feel __________(幸运的) to have the volunteer teachers there.
【小题10】The students didn’t stop talking ___________(直到) the teacher came in.

My parents are not at home, so I have to      my little sister.

A. look at            B. look for           C. look like          D. look after